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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, President Biden attempts one of the most tyrannical power grabs in the history of the presidency, issuing a vaccine mandate that affects 100 million Americans. I’ll have plenty to say about that today. Also, on the same day that the president tried to force 100 million Americans to inject a substance into their body, Kamala Harris went in front of cameras to speak out in defend of bodily autonomy. There seems to be a disconnect. And the Left comes to the defense of a death row inmate, claiming that pro-lifers are hypocrites if they don’t do the same. Is it true that pro-lifers have an obligation to oppose the death penalty? Also, a woman says she’s the victim of fat phobia and racism because she was kicked off a plane for not wearing a shirt.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Biden attempts one of the most tyrannical power grabs in the history of the presidency, issuing a vaccine mandate that affects 100 million Americans, potentially.
I'll have plenty to say about that today.
Also, on the same day that the president tried to force 100 million Americans to inject a substance into their body, Kamala Harris got in front of cameras to speak about the need for bodily autonomy.
So there seems to be a bit of a disconnect there.
And the left comes to the defense of a death row inmate, claiming that pro-lifers are hypocrites.
If they don't do the same.
Is it true that pro-lifers have an obligation to oppose the death penalty?
We'll talk about that.
Plus, a woman says that she's the victim of fatphobia and racism because she was kicked off a plane for not wearing a shirt.
We'll try to sort through that important controversy today, along with much more on The Matt Walsh Show.
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You know, for four years, we were warned incessantly that President Donald Trump was a vicious, power-mad tyrant, a fascist dictator.
He was Hitler incarnate, an authoritarian megalomaniac, etc.
You know, we heard this over and over and over again for four years.
Meanwhile, in reality, Trump was, you could argue, among the least tyrannical presidents we've ever had.
And whether you like him or you don't like him, you should be able to agree with that.
Because, in fact, one of his greatest flaws, in my opinion, was his reluctance to use the legitimate authority of his office in order to enact his agenda.
So his flaw was on the other end of that spectrum entirely.
Trump was no autocrat at all.
He was something close to the opposite of that.
No, we had to elect Joe Biden, this frail, decrepit, old Mr. Magoo with a moldy cantaloupe for a brain, to see what autocracy really looks like.
This is what it looks like.
So at around 5 p.m.
yesterday, only an hour before his bedtime, Biden stood in front of cameras and unveiled his plan to defeat COVID.
Now, I should say he unveiled his latest plan to defeat COVID.
He's already implemented several other plans, which apparently came to nothing.
You may recall when he first entered office and he said that he was going to vanquish the virus in 100 days.
Originally, it was supposed to be 15 days, and then a year later, we were still in the 15-day period.
And he said, well, never mind.
It's going to be 100 days.
In 100 days, we're going to be through this.
We're going to defeat it.
July 4th is the time.
But 15 days came and went.
100 days came and went.
The virus is still with us.
And that is because the virus will always be with us.
We live in a world where COVID-19 exists and will likely always exist.
And all we can do is learn how to live alongside it.
That's the reality, but it's a reality that nobody in a position of authority will publicly admit.
There's too much power, too much power to be gained in the promise of eradicating the virus, even if it's a false promise.
And that promise creates, for the tyrant, this kind of perfect mixture of false hope and also fear, which is a very potent recipe.
A recipe that's far too alluring for a guy like Joe Biden.
That's what brings us to his latest COVID action plan.
The president began last night by expressing his frustration with the Americans who have chosen not to get the vaccine.
Listen.
Even as the Delta variant 19, as COVID-19 has been hitting this country hard, we have the tools to combat the virus.
If we can come together as a country and use those tools, If we raise our vaccination rate, protect ourselves and others with masking, expanded testing, and identify people who are infected, we can and we will turn the tide on COVID-19.
It will take a lot of hard work, and it's going to take some time.
Many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated, even though the vaccine is safe, effective, and free.
He's a very angry man, Joe Biden is.
That's always been an underrated aspect of Joe Biden, just how angry he is.
And not only because of his old age and dementia, but he's always been like this, actually.
And that really, it's coming through more and more, just how angry he is at everybody, and especially at Americans.
Or he says frustrated.
He's frustrated with us.
Why is he frustrated?
Well, because he says, unvaccinated Americans, the unclean, the lepers, are posing a threat to vaccinated people.
Here he is explaining that.
The bottom line, we're going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers.
We're going to reduce the spread of COVID-19 By increasing the share of the workforce that is vaccinated in businesses all across America.
My plan will extend the vaccination requirements that I previously issued in the healthcare field.
Now, we're going to circle back, as his White House likes to say, we're going to circle back to that point in just a moment.
We're going to circle back to all of this stuff, but I want to run through some of these clips.
First, let's listen as Supreme Leader Biden explains exactly how he plans to force this drug into 100 million arms.
We must increase vaccinations among the unvaccinated with new vaccination requirements.
Of the nearly 80 million eligible Americans who have not gotten vaccinated, Many said they were waiting for approval from the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA.
Well, last month, the FDA granted that approval.
So, the time for waiting is over.
This summer, we made progress through the combination of vaccine requirements and incentives, as well as the FDA approval.
Four million more people got their first shot in August than they did in July.
But we need to do more.
This is not about freedom or personal choice.
It's about protecting yourself and those around you, the people you work with, the people you care about, the people you love.
My job as president is to protect all Americans.
So tonight, I'm announcing that the Department of Labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees That together employ over 80 million workers to ensure their workforces are fully vaccinated or show a negative test at least once a week.
And finally, what about governors who believe in, you know, silly things like states' rights and may attempt to defy Biden's royal edicts?
Well, he says he's simply going to get them out of the way.
Listen.
If they'll not help, if these governors won't help us beat the pandemic, I'll use my power as president to get them out of the way.
Doesn't explain how he's going to get them out of the way.
He's just going to get them out of the way.
Because they don't matter.
States' rights, that doesn't matter to him at all.
Now, the president also called for more kids to get vaccinated, and he said he was going to double the fines for travelers on airplanes who don't wear masks.
Initially, again, he said we'd have to mask for 100 days of his presidency, but we're way past 100 days now and he's
not only not taking the masks away, but he's doubling the fines for people who don't wear them.
If it's not obvious by now that the time frames these people give us mean nothing at
all, and that they only give us the time frames because they still refuse to come out and say,
"It's going to be like this forever, get used to it," then I don't know what else to say if that's
not obvious by now.
Well, I can think of a few additional things to say about all this.
So let's go through them.
Let's go through all these points.
Number one, all of this makes no sense if the vaccine works.
Right?
Biden says that the unvaccinated are putting the vaccinated in harm's way.
His message seems to be, the vaccines work, and you should trust them, but if you don't get the vaccine, then vaccinated people will get sick and die, and it will be your fault.
So get the vaccine because it works, and because other people are vaccinated, and they'll die if you don't get vaccinated too.
Even though the vaccine works.
And is effective.
And that's why you should get it.
So you don't kill other people who are vaccinated.
The messaging seems a little bit confused, to say the least.
You can't make this any less confused by simply saying that, well, the vaccine isn't 100% effective.
We know that it's not 100% effective.
No vaccine is 100% effective.
If the unvaccinated still pose such a significant threat to the vaccinated that these kinds of sweeping, unheard of, unprecedented, economy-crushing policies are necessary, then that would seem to indicate that the vaccine isn't just imperfect, it's not just not 100%, but it's in fact nearly worthless.
I'm not saying it's worthless.
I'm saying that the Biden administration is sending the message that the vaccines are worthless.
The fact is this.
If the vaccine provides significant protection to the vaccinated, then you can't justify mandates in the name of protecting the vaccinated because they're already protected.
But if a vaccine does not provide significant protection, Or if we don't know whether it provides significant protection, then you also can't justify the mandates because you're mandating a significantly ineffective drug.
There's no way around this problem.
So Biden just ignores it.
That's his way around it.
He also ignores something else.
My second point is he's ignoring, continuing to ignore, natural immunity.
We're not taking that into account at all.
The people in charge of containing the virus have remained committed to pretending that natural immunity doesn't exist, that it's some kind of conspiracy theory.
The research shows very clearly that prior infection brings robust immunity, maybe more robust than the vaccine, which means that millions of unvaccinated people are potentially more immune and therefore less of a public health threat, quote-unquote, than vaccinated people.
This is not a small point.
You know, if you're a vaccinated person and you're feeling high and mighty and looking at the unvaccinated people and saying, oh, you're causing all these problems, you're a danger.
For millions of the people in that unvaccinated category, there's a very good chance you are a greater threat than them if they have natural immunity.
Again, it's not a small point.
This mandate forces the vaccine on millions of people who, according to the best available science, don't need it.
That's not to say all of the unvaccinated people have natural immunity, but logic would tell us that millions of them do.
It is forcing an unnecessary drug, therefore, into the bodies of people who, again, don't need it according to the science.
If anyone still has any doubt about, you know, all of this being really just a plot to control people and not about protecting people, this point right here should cure you of any doubts.
There is no reason to ignore natural immunity, no good public health reason, other than the fact that, from the government's perspective, there's no control, there's no power to be gained from natural immunity, and that's why they ignore it.
Also, the unvaccinated-slash-vaccinated dynamic, the simple separation of the two groups with no further nuances or considerations, creates the perfect kind of tribalistic villainization for our leaders to exploit.
Joe Biden last night, if you watched that speech, and you saw some of it in the clips that we played there, he showed more anger and disgust towards the unvaccinated than he ever showed towards the Taliban.
Listen to these people talk about the Taliban.
We played the Secretary of State yesterday saying, yeah, their background is a little bit troubling.
They have a challenging background.
We want them to be more inclusive.
Compare that to what they're saying about unvaccinated people.
Because he has set the unvaccinated up as the fall guys.
Everything's their fault.
They're to blame for everything.
He's not the first tyrant to do this.
This is a tactic common to all tyrants throughout history.
Which brings us to the third and most important point, I think.
Number three.
Biden does not have the authority to do almost any of this.
Despite what his actions imply, he is not king.
He's not a holy emperor.
He's a politician.
And this is still the United States of America.
He knows he doesn't have the authority.
Just as he knew he didn't have the authority when he extended the eviction moratorium.
He said he didn't have the authority, but he did it anyway.
Everyone's asking, what's his legal justification?
What's his constitutional justification for doing this?
Well, I'll tell you what his legal and constitutional justification is.
It's that he can do it because he wants to do it, and he can do it, and he will do it, and what are you going to do about it?
That's his legal argument.
That's the justification.
And it's important to understand that.
It's important to understand that because the only remedy here is defiance.
Americans have to look back at these petty despots and say, no, we won't comply.
Arrest us all.
Send the army in and shut down all these businesses that are not enforcing your vaccine mandate.
We're calling your bluff.
This is a time to choose.
This is a time for drawing lines.
It's a time to say no.
You know, the word no has left our vocabulary in this culture in recent years.
We have to reintroduce it now.
Civil disobedience, refusal, say no.
That's the only way forward.
For too long, we've been You know, waiting for permission to be free people in a free country.
We've been sitting back and waiting for our rulers to tell us, okay, you can be free now.
But it doesn't work that way.
If you want to have a free country, you grant your own permission.
That's how it works.
And we have to realize that now, before it's too late.
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Well, I'll start with this, just to show you how little respect these people have for our intelligence.
Mere hours before Biden announced his vaccine mandate, forcing a drug into the bodies of 100 million people all at once, here's what Kamala Harris was saying.
Listen to this.
The president and I are unequivocal in our support of Roe v. Wade, and the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade And the right of women to make decisions for themselves with whomever they choose about their own bodies.
And needless to say, the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is not negotiable.
The right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is their decision.
It is their body.
These people are totally shameless.
This was the same day.
This was a couple of hours before Joe Biden got up there and said, you have to take the vaccine or we're going to take your job away from you.
We're going to take everything from you.
She's saying, and as always, very eloquent from Kamala Harris, by the way, she says, the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is not negotiable.
The right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is their decision.
It's their body.
Okay.
The right to make a decision is their decision.
That clarifies that.
But you have the right to make decisions with your own body.
They are advancing that at the same time.
You know, it's not even like there's a separation here of Well, we talked about the abortion thing last month, and now we're talking about vaccine mandates, and forget about what we said a month ago.
We're used to seeing that from Democrats and from the left.
But in this case, they're doing it at the same time.
You have the right to make decisions about your own body, but here's this drug.
Even if you don't need it, put it into your body.
There is no way to make that not a blatant contradiction.
Especially because the right to make decisions with your own body, that is an argument that only applies to the vaccine issue and not the abortion issue.
Because as I've said a million times with abortion, the point is, it's not your body you're making a decision about.
You're making a decision to destroy, to directly, intentionally destroy someone else's body.
You are acting upon someone else's body and destroying it.
So it's not about your body.
But with the vaccine, it's the only body directly affected is your own.
So that applies.
That logic actually applies.
The bodily autonomy argument is a bad argument in many of the contexts that the left uses it, especially abortion.
It just doesn't apply at all to abortion.
But here is one area Probably the primary area where it actually does apply is to vaccines.
And I know what the response is.
I know the response is, yeah, but if you don't get the vaccine, then you could get someone else sick.
Well, even if that's true, if we're, again, pretending, or if we're just ignoring the issue of natural immunity, And if we're doing this weird thing where we want to force the vaccine but at the same time we're acting like the vaccine doesn't work at all so that you still pose a threat to vaccinated people, even putting all of that craziness aside, it's still indirect.
Okay, by not getting a vaccine, you are not directly murdering anybody.
I know that that's the way that people in power have been talking about this issue for a year and a half now.
That to not get the vaccine or to walk outside without a mask on, it's tantamount to directly killing someone, but it's not.
You're not directly harming anyone.
That's not your intention in doing it.
You know, even if someone is harmed, there's many degrees of separation, as opposed to abortion, where it is a direct act upon someone else's body to destroy it.
That difference is not insignificant.
It really matters.
All right.
Let's move.
Since we're on the pro-life issue, a death row inmate named John Ramirez had his execution halted by the Supreme Court on Wednesday night because he claimed that his religious freedom was violated if his pastor was not able to lay hands on him as he was being executed, which apparently is not something that they allow in Texas.
I think they allow, I don't know what the rule is exactly, but they allow the pastor in there, but no one is allowed to make physical contact with the condemned as they are being executed.
But he said this is a violation of his religious liberty, so the Supreme Court came in and they halted it, and this is gonna go through the courts again, and then, you know.
But before the halt was announced, lots of Democrats on social media were once again claiming that pro-lifers are not really pro-life if they won't stick up for guys like John Ramirez.
So here's one example.
This is a tweet from a guy named Dan Green, who is, he's the National Communications Director for something called Democrats for Life.
These are Democrats who actually consider themselves to be pro-life.
And yet they remain in the Democrat Party.
Which is, it's like calling yourself a Satanist for Jesus.
It doesn't make any sense at all.
But this apparently is a group that exists and probably has about five people in it.
Here's what he tweeted.
He said, within a week of an abortion ban in Texas going into effect, Governor Abbott is killing John Ramirez on death row tonight.
The last request of John?
For his pastor to hold him as he dies.
That request was denied.
None of this makes sense.
We need a consistent life ethic.
Well, I agree.
We need a consistent life ethic.
Let me tell you what the consistent ethic is.
And it's actually very simple.
It is always wrong, always immoral, and should always be illegal.
To directly and intentionally destroy innocent human life.
You need all of those qualifications.
All of those qualifications are important.
I mean, obviously we can't say it's always wrong to destroy human life, period, because that would mean that you can't even, self-defense is wrong.
You can't shoot, if someone breaks in your house and tries to shoot you in the head, you can't defend yourself.
That would mean that all war, all war is bad.
Every single war that's ever been fought on every side was wrong.
And that doesn't make any sense.
So that's why you need these kind of qualifications.
Directly and intentionally is an important part of this too.
Every time you get into a vehicle, there's the chance that you could indirectly and unintentionally kill someone.
Being sober, you could still, just by driving down the road, someone could run out in front of your car and you could kill them.
You're driving down the road, someone runs in front of your car, you accidentally kill them.
Are you a murderer now?
Should you go to jail?
Of course not.
So that's why the pro-life ethic needs all of those qualifications.
They're very important.
What about John Ramirez?
Well, what did he do to get himself on death row?
He stabbed a convenience store clerk to death 29 times.
Stabbed him 29 times and killed him.
And stole $1.25.
This is a man who butchered another man.
Stabbed him 29 times for less than $2.
Now, what I would say to Dan Green and any other Democrat Who advances this talking point.
But I say, you're pro-life, but you're in favor of capital punishment.
If you can find an unborn baby who's guilty of stabbing someone 29 times and killing them, then maybe this comparison will begin to make sense.
But I don't think you're going to find that.
Because all unborn babies are, by definition, innocent.
They've done nothing.
They haven't harmed anyone.
They are the most innocent human beings on the planet.
They haven't had the opportunity to make any bad choices or to intentionally harm anybody.
So, that's the difference.
You know, this comparison, acting like you can't, like you don't see any substantive difference between a baby And a murderer who stabs someone to death 29 times?
I'm not sure I even believe it.
I'm not sure that I believe that you don't see the difference.
And this is another example where it actually works the other way.
Just like the bodily autonomy argument, you know, that works for vaccines, it doesn't work, it actually works against the pro-abortion side.
Because what about the bodily autonomy of the unborn baby who you're destroying?
So with this, when the Democrats raise the supposed pro-life hypocrisy on capital punishment, the hypocrisy goes the other way.
They're the ones who have a contradiction that they need to explain.
It doesn't trouble me at all to say That I am not in favor of executing babies in the womb, but I am in favor of executing convicted murderers.
That's my position.
For a lot of pro-life people, not all, that's our position.
But for most Democrats, their position is the only people that they're in favor of executing are unborn babies.
They're saying, don't execute the criminal, but execute the unborn baby.
So, whose position is more inconsistent?
Which position needs further justification and explanation?
The position that we should only execute convicted murderers, or the position that we should only execute unborn babies?
All right, this is from the New York Post.
It says, a woman who claims she was booted from a plane because her stomach was showing says that she was actually discriminated against for being a fat, tattooed, mixed-race woman.
Fairbanks, Alaska resident Raelyn Howard, 33, alleges she was harassed by Alaska Airlines staffers on Friday.
In turn, she did what people do these days to state her case.
She took to TikTok to post a now-viral video originally shared via her Fat Trophy Wife account on Friday.
The clip has Speaking of a contradiction in terms, the clip has since racked up 1.3 million views and more than 180,000 likes as of Monday morning.
In the footage, Howard can be seen getting escorted off of a flight by police officers who proceeded to question her about the incident.
She said, quote, throughout my life as a fat person, I've had to deal with fat phobia, especially growing up in the Midwest, but not to this degree.
She said, I felt like I was being discriminated against for being a fat, tattooed, mixed-race woman, which in turn left me full of emotions like anger, disappointment, helplessness, humiliation, and confusion.
Okay, now she recorded her conversation with, I think it was the TSA officer, which apparently that's something they'll let you do.
Well, they let her do it anyway.
She pulled out her phone.
She's sitting in the room just talking to the TSA officer, pulls out her phone, starts recording, and here's how that conversation went.
So what happened on the flight?
I was harassed about my outfit.
I put my shirt back on.
So you did have it off?
Yeah.
I had this on.
They asked me to put my shirt on, put the shirt back on, and then they approached me again saying that I can't wear this, my stomach is showing, and it's inappropriate.
And I said, I'm covered up.
I'm fine.
And she just kept going.
And I said, if you're going to kick me off, like, then kick me off.
I've done what you've asked me to do.
I want you to leave me alone.
That was the third time they approached me about my outfit, about wearing this outfit.
Yeah.
Okay.
So she was, she was wearing her, her bra on the plane, just her bra.
She, she, she boarded the plane in her underwear.
And then was shocked when they asked her to get off the plane.
Get off the plane?
Why?
I'm just sitting here in my underwear.
This is a fat phobia, she says.
Can we go back?
I mean, we've got all these rules on the plane already.
And you have to wear the damn mask and everything else.
Here's one rule that I would actually be in favor of.
Let us take the stupid masks off But a rule that I'd be in favor of, if the airlines chose to impose it, would be a much stricter, I mean they have dress codes, but how about a much stricter one?
If I was running an airline, I think I'd go back, you think about like the 1960s and 70s, they used to dress, they used to wear their Sunday's best to get on an airplane.
Which kind of makes sense because it's an event, right?
You're flying through the sky.
This should be a great event in your life, no matter how often you do it.
You're able to travel 35,000 feet in the sky.
We become so jaded and cynical about it.
We're so used to it that we don't stop to think of how incredible it is.
So it actually makes sense.
And the other reason it makes sense to dress more formally on a plane is because you're locked in this metal tube with other people.
And so you should make even more of an effort to be presentable.
Yeah, it's probably true.
No one else on the plane wants to look at you in your underwear.
You can call that fat phobia all you want.
Call it what you want.
But they shouldn't have to be locked in a plane with you for three and a half hours in this small condensed area.
So let's go back to that.
For doing all the rules anyway, how about you have to dress formally?
Certainly no sports bras, but also no pajamas.
Okay?
No flip-flops.
I shouldn't have to sit here on the plane with you an inch from me and I gotta stare at your hairy feet the entire time.
That's not okay either.
No flip-flops.
You know, formal.
Formal attire is what should be required on planes, in my opinion.
All right, CNN is very upset about the voter ID law in Texas that just went into effect this week.
And here is CNN.
They say, just in, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a bill that bans 24-hour and drive-thru voting, imposes new hurdles on mail-in ballots, and empowers partisan poll watchers.
And then they list, again, what the bill does.
And so here's... We're supposed to be upset about this.
They're listing it because this is supposed to be something that we find outrageous.
Okay, again, bans 24-hour and drive-thru voting, new vote-by-mail ID mandates, Bans officials from mailing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications.
Empowers poll watchers.
New requirements for assisting voters.
Monthly voter roll checks.
All of that makes a lot of sense to me.
What part of that is a problem?
And when it comes to the ID, Once again, we gotta go back to the contradictions here.
It's supposed to be some kind of oppressive, impossible requirement to tell people that they have to get an ID to vote, you know, once every four years.
Or once every two years if they vote in the midterms.
To tell someone that, hey, if you wanna vote in the next presidential election, you got four years, Three years at this point.
You have three years to get an ID and figure that out.
And here, on the day of voting, here are the rules that we're putting in place.
Very simple and easy rules.
And that's supposed to be impossible for people.
We're actually excluding people from voting just by putting those rules in place.
And yet it's not oppressive, it's not onerous to tell people that they have to go to, they have to make an appointment, go to Walgreens, get a drug injected into them in order to even have a job.
And hey, by the way, do you need an ID to get the vaccine?
I'm pretty sure you do.
Especially if they're giving you a vaccine card and you're getting the vaccine passport.
They need to know who you are and you're going to have to be able to verify who you are.
So we could require an ID for the vaccine and then require the vaccine just to go to your job every day.
Or you have to get tested once a week to go to your job.
But if you have to have that same exact ID to go vote three years from now, that's a problem?
Obviously makes no sense at all.
Okay, one other clip I want to play before we get, before we move on to reading the YouTube comments.
This is, you know, we love playing the TikTok videos here, and this is a fun one.
Because we have, you know, the crazy TikTok videos, the rant videos, people in their car.
This is another fun category of TikTok video because this is the fictional storytelling genre of TikTok videos.
Let's listen.
You guys, we just got home from the park.
You're not gonna believe what happened as I was about to leave.
So Everly's playing in the mulch pit.
While she's playing in there, she made friends with a little boy.
He's black.
Who cares?
They're happy.
I'm not thinking anything of it.
This other mom comes and sits down on the bench next to me.
The mom is white.
She says to me, oh my gosh, is that your daughter?
She's so cute.
I said, yep.
She then leans in closer to me and goes, you know, she's playing with a black boy.
I was like, and?
And then she was like, oh, no reason.
There's just a lot of kids here and I'm surprised that's who she's playing with.
Why is that surprising to you?
It gets worse.
I was like, she can play with whoever she wants.
We're not racist.
She says, I'm not racist either.
She says her biggest hope is one day her grandchildren grow up to look kind of like her.
That's your biggest hope for your daughter?
I, you know what?
Of all of the things that have happened in the world, that one, Certainly is in the category of things that happen.
I believe that.
I believe every part of that story, okay?
I know I started by saying this is a fictional storytelling genre.
I should not have said that.
That story sounded very credible to me.
I don't know about you.
Haven't we all had these experiences on playgrounds?
Are you just sitting there and some racist white person comes up, says, what are all these black children doing on the playground?
Get out of here!
Haven't we all experienced that?
Oh no, I mean literally none of us ever have.
It just never happens at all.
Can you at least put some effort into your fake stories?
You know, sit down, do a little storyboarding.
Give a little bit of nuance and character and flavor to these fake races that you're making up.
Give them a little bit of a backstory.
I don't know.
If you want us to believe it.
But this just goes to show, once again, when we get these racism hoaxes, which this certainly is, the good thing, the good sign, is that these people who are making up these stories have never met a racist person.
So they have no idea what a racist person sounds like or what's a credible story you could tell about a racist person.
They've never met one, so they have no idea.
And they're getting this all from movies.
That's a good thing.
It shows how uncommon racism actually is in this country.
Much to the chagrin of people like that woman in the TikTok video.
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This is from Jabari says, You guys ever wonder what Matt's wife thinks of the Sweet Daddy Walsh title?
I mean, on the one hand, it's weird, but on the other, his wife likes ridiculing him.
Well, she does, but I can tell you right now, she is... I think I've already shared with you.
The very distressing and troubling fact that my wife is not a member of the Sweet Baby Gang.
I've invited her into the gang.
I've said, hey, honey, come be a part of the gang.
And she does, she just laughs at me.
And she says, here's the word that she's used so many times with the Sweet Baby Gang.
Creepy.
If you could believe it.
If you can believe it, my wife thinks that it's creepy for strangers to be calling me Sweet Daddy.
I don't understand it.
Women.
I mean, it's impossible to understand.
Nathan says, Matt, I was very disappointed when I tried the discount code SBG and Sweet Baby Gang and still had to pay $40 for this t-shirt.
You filthy, greedy cowboys.
Is it really $40?
Is that how much it costs?
Well, hey.
Is it actually $40?
Um, look, it, it, it, we're starting a cult here.
Okay.
And this is part of, it's, it's expensive on the ground floor.
You think it's going to be, that's, that's cheap compared to Scientology.
You think you can walk into Scientology building and get to square one of becoming a Scientologist for just 40 bucks?
I think that's a deep discount when you think about it.
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William says, Robert E. Lee was a highly respected military officer before, during, and after the war by both cultures of North and South.
He was not a secessionist.
In fact, when he offered a position of general over all armies in the North by Lincoln, Lee's daughter reported how distressed and sleepless Lee was in making the decision over the period of two weeks.
Lee also expressed his desire to see an end to slavery, yet it has become his face that is the poster of slavery in America.
The absolute hubris and ignorance of these people tearing down statues is astounding.
Yeah, that's like what we talked about yesterday, especially when it comes to somebody like Robert E. Lee.
People refuse to view him or anyone at that period within the context of their time.
I mean, you have to keep in mind, it's the mid-19th century.
Which means that nobody on the planet has racial views that would be acceptable to us today.
Nobody.
That goes for the abolitionists.
That goes for Abraham Lincoln, who famously was in favor of shipping all the slaves back to Africa, who famously said that he's not in favor of racial equality between the races.
It's not just white people in America, either.
You go across the entire world.
Nobody at that period of time would have had racial views that would seem acceptable to us today in the year 2021.
Never mind their views on so many other topics.
Like gender, for example.
So, that's one part of the context.
Important context.
Again, the point of the context is not to say that objectively evil things were not evil.
This is not moral relativism.
Slavery was still a great evil.
It was a great evil in America.
It was a great evil across the globe.
And as it was practiced across the globe for thousands of years, it was always evil.
That's not the point.
The point is about understanding context.
And also, if we're trying to, and this is really impossible to do, and this is up to God to do, but if we're trying to, after the fact, assess the personal moral culpability of any individual, that's when things like historical context come into play.
So that's part of the context.
The other part of the context, as you point out, William, is that he was from Virginia, That was his home.
Again, hard for us to understand this or see it this way as modern Americans.
But back in those days, especially in the South, their country was their state.
If you were from Virginia, consider yourself a Virginian first.
It's not a wrong way of looking at it.
It's just a different way of looking at it.
That's how they saw it.
So this was his home.
This is where his family lived.
This is where his sons lived.
He was given the opportunity to lead the armies, to lead the army in the North, but he knew that he would be marching against his own home and taking up arms against his own family and probably his own sons.
Maybe we can at least understand how that's an agonizing decision for a person to make.
And then when you put them squarely within the context of mid-19th century America, Is it really that hard to understand how a person would make the decision to fight alongside their families, rather than against them?
But no.
Historical context is not allowed at all, as we've discovered.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
You know, I had this experience this past weekend, perhaps you can relate.
I had the house to myself because my wife and kids were out of town for a couple days.
And I had deliberated over it for a little while and decided exactly how I wanted to spend my free time that night.
And my plan, it was an exciting plan, it was this.
I was going to pour a glass of whiskey, I was going to sit in our comfortable leather chair, and I was going to read a book.
And that's what I was going to do with my time.
That was my whole plan.
And for dinner, I was feeling a little bit adventurous, so I decided instead of ordering my customary General Tso's chicken from the local Chinese place, I was going to order another dish from the local Chinese place along with the General Tso's.
But then when it came time to order, I kind of chickened out and I ended up just getting two of the General Tso's chickens, which was way too much food, by the way, for one person to eat.
Anyway.
That was about all the excitement that I thought I could handle, so after eating way too much food and reading and drinking whiskey, I figured I'd get to bed at a reasonable hour, say 10.30.
That, again, was the plan.
Now, I realize that for younger people, everything I'm saying right now sounds horrifically depressing.
You can't believe that you'll ever be as boring as me.
Like, I have a night to myself and this is what I wanted to do, but everybody in their mid-30s or older hears my agenda for the night and thinks, wow, that does sound like a lovely evening.
And it would have indeed been lovely, if I had stuck to the plan.
But instead, after I ordered my food, I got to looking at my phone.
And after my phone had cannibalized, you know, you pick up your phone, you start looking at it, and next thing you know, it's an hour and a half later.
After it cannibalized a portion of the night, I decided that, well, I'm too tired to read, so I better just watch something instead.
But then I started browsing through the options, and there were way too many options, and I just wasted another portion of my time trying to find something to watch.
Finally, I decided to watch, you know, the same episode of The Office that I've already seen 95 times.
Then I watched a couple more episodes, and I went to bed.
What could have been a relaxing but mentally and spiritually enriching night What did I get in exchange for this trade?
And like so many nights before it, sacrificed on the altar of the glowing screen.
What did I get in exchange for this trade?
Did I get an enjoyable night?
Well, that would be something.
But it's hard to say that aimlessly scrolling your phone or mindlessly flipping through
the options on Netflix is enjoyable.
It's hard to say that there's real joy to be found in watching some kind of content simply because it is content.
I certainly didn't gain edification or enrichment of any kind.
I'm not even sure that I could say that I gained relaxation.
Relaxation was the night that I had already planned, but then abandoned.
So, I say all this as kind of a way to lead up to this study in The Sun, which was just released, finding that the average adult will spend 100 days of their life deciding what TV show or movie to watch.
That's 100 days cumulatively will be spent, you know, just clicking through the options on Netflix.
That's the cumulative amount of time.
It doesn't count all the thousands of hours spent actually watching whatever you eventually select.
Now, I'm always a little bit skeptical of studies that purport to tell you ahead of time how many hours you'll spend of your life doing this or that, but 100 days in this case seems about right.
Because there are other statistics, too.
Some of them are a little bit more familiar to us, and they kind of put the problem into greater perspective.
According to some of the most recent tabulations that I've read, Americans spend about two and a half hours a day just on social media, The average time spent watching TV is about 4 or 5 hours.
Overall, then you gotta factor in video games, movies, porn for a lot of people.
American adults stare at screens for 10 hours a day.
10 hours.
Which does not sound like an exaggeration.
That sounds, in anything, maybe an underestimate.
For kids under 12, it's about 4 to 6 hours a day.
Again, sounds like an underestimate, if anything.
When you consider that the average adult sleeps for seven or eight hours a night, that leaves only about six hours of waking time not spent staring at screens.
Our lives have become completely consumed by these devices.
The entirety of our existence, just about, has been condensed down into these little boxes, like the one that I'm looking at right now, and that you're looking at.
Now, people have been sounding the alarm about exorbitant screen time for years, for decades, really.
Before the internet existed, there were people warning that our lives have become dominated by screens, by TV screens in that case.
And we're so used to hearing these warnings that we tend to shrug them off.
In fact, oftentimes we look at the people who were panicking over TV decades ago and we laugh at them like they were Chicken Little.
So we say, see?
What were you guys so worried about?
Everything turned out fine.
But it didn't turn out fine.
And we do the same thing with people like in the 50s who were warning about pop culture and pop music and rock music and where that would lead.
And now we look at them and we say, look at this, it's so quaint and ridiculous.
They were worried about Elvis.
Well, no, but they were right.
Look at pop culture today.
They were exactly right.
With TV, it's the same thing.
You know, it didn't turn out fine.
They were right.
More right than they knew.
They saw the pattern, but probably didn't expect that within just a few years, the average American would spend nearly every waking hour of every day looking at a screen.
And the physical effects of this are significant.
All of this screen time leads to obesity, neck and back problems, sleep problems, inability to focus, depression, anxiety, on and on and on.
We live in a world of fat, misshapen hunchbacks, thanks largely to screens.
And yet, the physical ramifications are not the most disturbing aspect of this.
Not even the depression or the anxiety that comes from a life lived inside this box.
The most disturbing thing is what drives us to constantly stare at the box in the first place.
As I said at the beginning, it's not really enjoyment or edification.
I mean, that might be the reason why you watch one particular thing, like this show, for example.
That's a good thing to watch.
But what is it that drives us to stare constantly at screens as a default, even when there's nothing worth staring at?
Even when we're not really enjoying it?
What drives you to sit there in front of your TV and, like, search desperately for something to watch?
There's not even anything you feel like watching.
You're trying to find something, anything to watch.
Why would we spend all that time searching desperately for just some kind of content to consume?
It's one thing if there's a particular piece of content you know you want and you want it for a particular reason and you seek it out and you watch it.
But why are we always seeking content?
Why is there this overriding impulse to keep looking?
I think the main thing people seek from the screen is stupefication.
It's sort of a mental numbing agent.
An escape from thought.
We've become reliant on the screens because for us it's too taxing to think and to reflect and to develop a real and authentic interior life.
The internet and the screens have become a replacement for our interior life.
That's why people reflexively just put all of their lives on the internet.
All of their thoughts and pictures and everything.
They just throw it all out there on the internet.
Whereas in the past, they would have stored many of those things inside themselves, because their interior life was located within their minds, but now it's all on the internet.
We've become reliant on the screens because it's better than... it's a replacement for that.
And maybe it's too scary, also, to think.
That's why we've become a nation of zombies.
I think it's one of the reasons why COVID has hit us so hard psychologically.
We had been hiding behind the screens for so long, shrinking away from difficult thoughts, not reflecting on anything, really, especially not thoughts about mortality, until something rushed onto the scene that our screens wouldn't hide us from.
So, what am I canceling?
I guess I'm canceling your phone, and your TV, and all of your screens, and all of you, and also me.
Except this show.
That's not counted.
This is a good thing to watch.
Or any Daily Wire content, of course.
That's all different.
So we will end this on that inspiring note of blatant and self-serving hypocrisy.
There's another reason why I am also cancelled in this particular cancellation.
We'll leave it there.
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Thanks for listening.
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